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[–] diannetea@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would call that calligraphy, not cursive. The cursive I was taught in the US has many upstrokes and you only lift your pen at the end to cross t and x and dot I and j.

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I think this may be the crux of the issue. Nobody was taught a consistent ‘cursive’. We were all taught basically different dialects, without really realizing it, so nobody can read anyone else’s cursive